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- Julian Campbell
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Hi again Xtrahype
I have looked at your site and The images in your catagories (click on and go to that catergory) would actually be the four images I have on my front page, with each image taking the customer to the furniture in that catergory
Thanks again
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- Aurora
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- oka what i have came up with is this, publish virtuemart to your frontpage, with menu. you know Menu Manager, and then publish as an menu, then those categories, you already created will show up in the front end of virtuemart, menu. you created, scroll mouse over categories and copy link location, then add those to the images you have until you have what you want, when done you can unpublish the virtuemart menu, cause you already have those categories on your frontpage link to the category in virtuemart in the back-end. thats the only solution i have.
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- Julian Campbell
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Fantastic
Thanks Xtra, That is what I would have done
The problem I had was being able to publish VM in the first place. I had no idea it was a menu item
How silly am I ?
Back to work, and doubtless will have more questions
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- Aurora
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Julian Campbell wrote:
Fantastic
Thanks Xtra, That is what I would have done
The problem I had was being able to publish VM in the first place. I had no idea it was a menu item
How silly am I ?
Back to work, and doubtless will have more questions
your welcome, yes in deed, am working on the VM to look like Walmart. / Macys .com its requres alot of categories, but am setting up and demostration store, then after work on the template for the store. wish there was an RT store template next month, but who knows.
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- becky knutson
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XtraHype.com - Keeping The Vibe Alive wrote:
oka what i have came up with is this, publish virtuemart to your frontpage, with menu. you know Menu Manager, and then publish as an menu, then those categories, you already created will show up in the front end of virtuemart, menu. you created, scroll mouse over categories and copy link location, then add those to the images you have until you have what you want, when done you can unpublish the virtuemart menu, cause you already have those categories on your frontpage link to the category in virtuemart in the back-end. thats the only solution i have.
i'm not sure if i can explain this good enough, but here goes.... i thought i was doing what's quoted above but having issues.
i am trying to put a shopping cart together on a chromataphore template. i got the shopping cart working fine. I added it to a menu called 'start' on the front page published in user 9 spot on the bottom. then created an 'shop' tab in main menu linked to an article where i had a simple picture and description of the product. i copied the link location from the virtuemart product details link to this picture.
then from that point forward when i click on my 'tempstore2' link it takes me to the 'article' i created with pictures of the products not to the virtuemart store.
www.beyourgreatness.com
i've been relinking the article and the cart menu, but with no luck. if anyone can even understand my issue i'd appreciate some suggestions.
thanks!
becky
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- Peter Osipof
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@Julian, you are using VirtueMart 1.0.x, I suggest you upgrade to VitueMart 1.1.3 (latest version as of this post) development of VM 1.0.x branch stopped a year ago and support will stop May/June of 2009.
@XtraHype.com if you want Walmat look have a look at www.poweredbyvirtuemart.com - VirtueShop
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- Intramedial
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FinallyInSeattle wrote:
Very much a newbie to VirtueMart - I'm just getting ready to start the VirtueMart portion of my site which is using the Replicant2 template. How do I "use" the Replicant2 template for VirtueMart? Does VirtueMart automatically take on the appearance of the default Joomla template? Do VirtueMart "themes" & "templates" override the Joomla template? Any info or links would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks very much in advance!
VM uses some parts of own css, those are located inside the theme.css for the VM. Most the stuff is taken over from the Joomla template.css. But, heavy work ahead when you want something really awsome. When you simply want a shop, and not some month to months of coding before you can open, use Magento, this is a free open source shopping cart system. Do not get the impression by looking over any VM Templates there that you get some real pro store with that, they only make your shop look a bit better but you will miss all the features even the normal standard paid shops have and also Magento has...This may be the reason why RT never made a VM Template...so check out www.magentocommerce.com
When you are not capable of installing this system, as it is a bit different than VM and Joomla, they will install it for just 149$.
There is also Prestoshop, a nice cart with a sorted backend and simple usage.
VM is something that is really only good when you have time, lust, money, skills, notorious kicks inside your mind that tell you to use it for whatever reason. It is a system that either wrecks you or you win over it...Bugs, Bugs, Bugs...Missing features, hacks and nerving developers, (Sorry, no offense
).and no way to get really good free support in their forum, so expect to get a free system where you will invest money in, at the latest point when you just installed all, the site looks good and suddenly you think, "What the &$§", I thought this is a cool shopping system, nothing works like with Overstock.com" and will pay some guys to make it to a pro shop than... 
and will beg to get Magento.
Much fun!
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- Peter Osipof
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Every tool has it pros and cons, it is best to evaluate as many solutions as possible before deciding which to use, depending to nature of your business and needs a tool that looks promising might be over kill and not a feasible choice.
Users are always bitter when they can’t use an application and try to bad mount it, the fact remains that it is possible to have VirtueMart up and running within one to two hours depending to ones needs, everything is available user manual, developer manual, FAQ and forum.
No doubt Magento is a nice looking and powerful shopping cart, but people fail to realize that Magento is a company with employees who get paid to code, design, write documentation and answer forum question, it is almost impossible for volunteer base project(s) to compete with employee base projects.
All softwares have bugs, but not all user complains are bugs, to make any shopping cart look like overstock.com or amazon.com extensive design and coding is required, don’t let Magento feature stores fool you they are designed by professionals who charge $5000 to $10000.
That said almost always standalone shopping carts will be better than cms add-on shopping cart because of compatibility issues and design.
There are many good standalone shopping carts all with their pros and cons, Prestashop, CRE-Loaded, X-cart, LiteCommerce, Magento, SunShop, my favorite OFBiz and the grand daddy of shopping carts is back Oscommerce v3 - VirtueShop
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- Nanu84
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Hi,
Look. With VM your choices are limited if you have limited coding skills. But if you can do a bit of CSS and HTML and some nice candy graphics, I think you can do a very good job with VM. VM is a huge system, with lots and lots of potential of you have the right knowledge.
My suggestions:
1. Buy a good VM template say from Templateplazz.com (a bit of marketing wont do any harm i suppose).
2. Or as Peter has mentioned, switch to something a bit more robust and less demanding in terms of coding and such - my favourite is Magento. Clean, robust and great on support. It has server compatibility issues though - certain privileges, permissions, PHP scripts & functions etc - so speak to your domain server to ensure that they are Magento compatible.
3. Learn your CSS and design quickly. It does not really hurt to spend hours on end learning how to make your site (your client's) look the way you want. there are CSS scripts all over the net that one can use and adapt from. This way, you might create a nice template for Virtuemart for all of us.
Otherwise, good luck and please do tell us how it all went.
Thanks
Phehello (aka Nanu84)
Joburg, South Africa
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